Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-22

stable and get q buggy that they
might go to drive. He said he could
not 20, as there we're two men in the
stable door who knew him. She told
the Chicks she was going to Pasadena.
She and Harlan drove out Flgueroa
to Tenth or Eleventh, and then
drove back to Eighth. Here they drove
off the street into patch of orange
orchard, and getting into dispute, as
he wished her to 90 to Denver with
him, and she refused. he took out d
pistol and shot himself.
MURDER WILL OUT.
Darcy stopped her in her story and
said: ga man cannot shoot himself
very easily behind the left ear as Har-
Ian was shot?'
This broke her down and she burst
out: "Oh, well, l did it."
She then says she drove the buggy
with the dead body against her side
to the old barn, five. or six miles OF,
backed the vehicle to the door,
cranked the wheels. let down the cur
tain, gave the body push which
tossed it into the building. She then
set it afire and drove away. In telling
the story to Jeffries, she said she used
straw and coal oil to make it
burn. Darcy asked her where she
got the matches to kindle the
fire, and this question oazed
her for BIT, but she finally said
shortly:
"oh. I always carry matches with
me-"
She made no explanation to Ser
geant Jeffries as to where she got the
coal oil.
SOME NERVE.
After firing the barn she drove
home. 1t was nearly morning when
she reached the house where she
lodged. She took the horse out and
tied him near the buggy. She
went to her room, but did not sleep.
Before day quite broke she went out
and washed the buggy, using sponge
from her room. There was little
blood from the wound, only little
matter-brains, she thinks was in
the vehicle. Some OF this she could
not wash away, as it was down in Il
chink in the seat. Here she cut away
Il part of the lining SO as to get rid OF
all evidence of the crime. Later she
returned the buggy to the stable.
THE PLUMBER.
Chief Darcy next asked her what
had become OF the things Harlan had
on his person. She said she had the
pistol and the watch hidden on u hill
out on Orange avenue, in Il few gum
trees. He took her there. and when
she got out of the buggy to
get them she made rush
past him to dig them up.
Darcy was not taking chances then,
and caught her by the arm.
Hattie, 1 must dig them up" he
said.
So she pointed to an old can and
said they were there. He dug up
Harlan's watch and chain, and 80
or 3S.calibre pistol.
Harlan had valuable locket, and
this Hattie says she took, but lost. A
valuable ring she said she htd not
seen at all. She said she
got $40 in money on him.
His friends say he must have had
5000 to 1900 on his person.
One night as Darcy took the girls
from the restaurant where they get
their supper, Hattie asked him to go
with her to the corner of Jefferson
and Main streets, where she said she
wanted to seea man. But Minnie
took the Chief aside, and said:
''Do not go, she knows where YOU
carry your pistol, and she will grab it
off you if she can and shoot herself.
She may shoot you too"
CONFIRMATION.
The Chief seems to have left moth
ing undone to fix the fact Of Hattie
WOolsteen's guilt. He got Sergeant
Jeffries to go to her, and she told this
officer about the same story.
The story told above needs no COM
ment to fix its horrors in the mind. 1t
is hard to doubt its correctness in tn Q
main--that a girl could do it, could
take that long dark ride with her VIC
tim by her side, dump the body
in the barn, search it for the valuables
on it, perhaps take the matches from
the corpse to serve for its own crema-
ton, burn the barn, drive home,
wash the buggy, return it to the sta
BILE, hide the watch and pistol, and
still be calm and collected
when arrested-well, who will end
the reflection?
HER LAWYERS STORY.
1t is stated on good authority that
Mr.. q. Wiley Wells, her lawyer, says
that the acquaintance between Hattie
Woolsteen and Harlan began acci-
dentally. Hattie went to DR.. Bird to
have her teeth filled, but found that
gentleman too busy to accom-
modate her. As she was
badly in need of dental work
DR.. Bird took her to Harlan's office
and introduced them. Hattie's visits
to Harlan's Office became frequent and
finally, by means of promises of mar
riage and liberal support, Harlan sue.
ceeded in seducing her. AS time
passed, Harlan, though oft requested
so to do, refused to marry
her, and prior to the murder
Hattie felt that she was a deeply in
jured person. Mr.. Wells, when asked
about the circumstances surrounding
the killing, refused to state what the
defense would be or to tell what Hattie
had told him in relation to it.